'This is the book I have been looking for to help us in growing our fledgling mentorship programme. Kathleen Feeney Jonson has answered all our questions, from how to select and support good mentors to how to evaluate the programme's effectiveness. Her book is filled with sound research-based ideas that we can-and will-implement tomorrow!' - Kathryn Carlson, Assistant Superintendent Skaneateles Central School District, Skaneateles, New York The author has written a comprehensive book on the mentoring process for new teacher support. Thoroughly embedded in the current research, theories, and best practices of mentoring, Kathleen Feeney Jonson provides the support and knowledge that mentor teachers need to help new teachers through their critical first years and that staff developers need to build and maintain effective mentoring programmes. The book also includes case studies, first person quotes from mentees and mentors, checklists, and sample forms.

Passing the torch -- Setting up for success -- Remembering the first days -- Getting off to a good start -- Strategies for mentoring -- Working as a partner with the adult learner -- Why be a mentor? The pitfalls and the payoffs -- Putting it all together -- Appendix A: Mentor-mentee action plans -- Appendix B: A framework of teaching competencies -- Appendix C: teachers' developmental stages -- Appendix D: First-day checklist -- Appendix E: supervisory beliefs inventory -- References.